Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-08
DAnoTA CONVERSATIONS

A man at Fargo recently made a $50
pound Switzor cheese.
Buildings are being moved from Re
Heights to HiRhmore.
Fargo and Bismarck coal dealers will
give 1000 pounds to a ton hereafter.
Colonel George Woodford will lecture
at jamestown on October 9, 10 and IL
jamestown is to have water works,
electric light and the signal service aags.
Groton has five elevators and expects
to ship over 100000 bushels OF grain
this fall.
Burglars were frightened from Thos.
Oonnell's safe, ct Hamilton, in which
WAS 81, 900 cash.
Hyde county commissioners have sold
to Massachusetts, parties $1,000 per cent
fifteen year bonds at Q per sent premium.
Prot. Homer l.. Sprsgue has acoep ted
the presidency OF the north Dakota uni
versity. and will commence his labors q,
once.
A five year old daughter Of T. o.
Myrick, living near Sioux Falls, was
fatally burned while playing with
matches.
The Union county fair closed it's gates
Friday evening, Sept. 18th, to the most
successful three days fsir eyer held in
that section of the country.
Prot. Montgomery has for the present
finished e%xcayating the mounds on
Devils Lake. Sixty skeletons and nu-
merous bones of animals have been
fou d.
Lieut. Matthew T mer Steele, 9th
United States calvary. wss married Wed,
nesday evening at Gethsemane church.
Fargo, to Estells Folsom, daughter OF j,
B. Folsom. o prominent capitalist.
Mr. M. Windals brought to Elk Point
one day last week some samples oil
apples raised by him this year. There
were four varieties and were as fine ap-
pies as caA be raised anywhere. He has
about twelve bushels.
Rev. Norman Ransom, OF Grandin,
Oak, a Methodist Episcopal clersyme
who arrived IN Rockford, Illinois, We'd
nesday, died suddenly that evening OF
typhoid fever. He was a member OF the
north Dakota conference.
Christine Nilsson, . married woman
with three children, suicided at Sioux
Falls Wednesday, by sending e bullet
7nto her brain. For some time past she
has been under christian science treat.
ment for temporary insanity.
The Elk Point public schools COM
menced the new year on Monday morn
ing with the following corps of teachers
Prot. A. ]. Kimmei, principal, Misa
Dora Hawk, grammar department; w.
z. Sabin, lst intermediate; Miss Fannie
Boyles. 2nd intermediate; Mrs, O. B
lshem, primary.
The Sioux Falls and Sioux City pas
eengeT train met with an accident at
Sioux Falls Thursday, In pulling on,
from the depot at a high rate OF speed
the locomotive and first car were derailed
by sn open switch. The accident oc.
CURED on q twenty foot grade, and i,
was an exceedingly narrow escape from
a roll down the enbsnkment. The train
was delayed only a couple of hours.
At Bismarck the Uuited States courf
closed Thursday and Marshal Maratta
left for Sioux Falls With prisoners con-
YIcted for various offepses. Sergeant
Gunther, convicted for mayhem, was
sentenced to two months in the peniten-
tiary and q fine OF $500. Hollenback /,
his counsel, CAV notice of an appeal.
1t is an aggravated case. Gunther has
been q regular soldier for over twenty
years.
Psrties from the vicinity of the idem-
nifty lands in Trail county report tina,
shanties can be seen every where on the
~coptroverted lands, which are ali i'm.
proved farms in that county. Very
similar reports come from the parts Of
Richland and other counties included in
the limits. In some cases threats OF
violence are heard, and there NAV be
occasional collisions, but the general
feeling is to leave the matter 70 the
courts and land offices.